Muslim Feminist Argument Analysis

Within the Muslim world, the Quran, Hadith and their religious messages are often misinterpreted and taken out of context by the believers themselves, and that might lead Muslims to unjustly treat each other. Islamic feminism is a social movement created in the 1990s that thrives to promote women’s holy rights granted by Allah through various interpretations of Qur’an verses (Tafsir) and the Hadith (Prophet Muhammad’s words) in order to put Muslim women in their just place solely based on the principles of their religion. The ultimate goal of Muslim feminists it to liberate women and themselves from wrong patriarchy and change the generally negative Western perception on Islam and its laws regarding the “gentle gender”.

While some Muslim activists portray the explanation and promotion of a Qur’an-instructed gender equity and social justice as any Muslim woman's right, others, conversely, refuse to label such a practice as Islamic feminism and depict it as a woman-focused understanding of the Hadith and Holy Qur'an. Aysha A. Hidayatullah argues in her article (“Feminist interpretation of the Qur’an in a comparative feminist setting”) that according

This must be considered as a major issue as it is believed by these scholars that male interpretations of God’s words brings unbalance and that in order to regain the justice of the Qur’an, there has